"If ten men are carrying a log – nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end – and you want to help, which end will you lift on?" – William Borden, as he reflected on the numbers of Christian workers in the U.S. as compared to those among unreached peoples

"Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them" – A.W. Tozer

"The reason some folks don't believe in missions is that the brand of religion they have isn't worth propagating." – unknown

When James Calvert went out as a missionary to the cannibals of the Fiji Islands, the ship captain tried to turn him back, saying, "You will lose your life and the lives of those with you if you go among such savages." To that, Calvert replied, "We died before we came here."

"Someone asked Will the heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question with me whether we – who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not – can be saved." – Charles Spurgeon

"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" – Carl F. H. Henry

“Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie–talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief. It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den...Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for: Prayer is for the accomplishment of a wartime mission.” – John Piper

"Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop." – Kurt von Schleicher

"All my friends are but one, but He is all sufficient." – William Carey

"Missions is the overflow of our delight in God because missions is the overflow of God's delight in being God." – John Piper

"God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose." – John Piper

"Go, send, or disobey." – John Piper

"You can give without loving. But you cannot love without giving." – Amy Carmichael, missionary to India

"Only as the church fulfills her missionary obligation does she justify her existence." – Unknown

"As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both." – J. L. Ewen

"The command has been to 'go,' but we have stayed – in body, gifts, prayer and influence. He has asked us to be witnesses unto the uttermost parts of the earth ... but 99% of Christians have kept puttering around in the homeland." – Robert Savage, Latin American Mission

"People who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives ... and when the bubble has burst, they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted." – Nate Saint, missionary martyr

"We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God." – John Stott

"Believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story." – K.P. Yohannan, founder of Gospel for Asia Bible Society

"Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ." – Francis Xavier, missionary to India, the Philippines, and Japan

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity." – Mike Stachura

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is – where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge." – Robert C. Shannon

"People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South." – J. Howard Edington

"It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions." – John R. Mott

"Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions" – Roderick Davis

"Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love" – Roland Allen

"I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ." – Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

"If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers" – Nina Gunter

"If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence." – David Bosch

"The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as he chooses. It is rooted in the character of the God who has come to us in Christ Jesus. Thus, it can never be the province of a few enthusiasts, a sideline or a specialty of those who happen to have a bent that way. It is the distinctive mark of being a Christian." – James S. Stewart

"The average pastor views his church as a local church with a missions program; while he ought to realize that if he is in fact pastoring a church, it is to be a global church with a missions purpose." – Unknown

"The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world." – A. B. Simpson

"Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work." – A.B. Simpson

"If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small." – Pat Morley

"If missions languish, it is because the whole life of godliness is feeble. The command to go everywhere and preach to everybody is not obeyed until the will is lost by self–surrender in the will of God. Living, praying, giving and going will always be found together." – Arthur T. Pierson

"The history of missions is the history of answered prayer." – Samuel Zwemer

"'Go ye' is as much a part of Christ's Gospel as 'Come unto Me.' You are not even a Christian until you have honestly faced your responsibility in regard to the carrying of the Gospel to the ends of the earth." – J. Stuart Holden

"I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!" – Isobel Kuhn, missionary to China and Thailand

"God is a God of missions. He wills missions. He commands missions. He demands missions. He made missions possible through His Son. He made missions actual in sending the Holy Spirit." – George W. Peters

"The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet." – Unknown

“No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.” – E. M. Bounds

“Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.” – John Wesley

“Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.” – George Whitefield

“Beware of reasoning about God’s Word––obey it”. – Oswald Chambers

“The Gospel is not an old, old story, freshly told. It is a fire in the Spirit, fed by the flame of Immortal Love; and woe unto us, if through our negligence to stir up the Gift of God which is within us, that fire burns low.” – Dr. R. Moffat Gautrey

“How shall I feel at the Judgement, if multitudes of missed opportunities pass before me in full review, and all my excuses prove to be disguises of my cowardice and price” – Dr. W. E. Sangster

“Little faith will get you to heaven. Great faith will bring heaven to you”. – David Legge

“A baptism of holiness, a demonstration of godly living is the crying need of our day.” – Duncan Campbell

“Give me the love that leads the way,The faith that nothing can dismay, The hope no disappointments tire, The passion that will burn like fire,Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God”. – Amy Carmichael

"The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner." – William Cameron Townsend

"The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires" – Samuel Zwemer

"If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go" – William Wilberforce speakin